Ice skating lessons

Today was Matthew's first ice skating lesson.

It went pretty much the way I thought it would. He was soooo excited beforehand. We shall see what the coming weeks bring.

Sesame Street Live 2012

We were able to go to Sesame Street Live earlier this month in Detroit. We had good seats, too. Matthew took a nap on the way there, he's still has sleepy eyes in the first photo.

As per normal Matthew fashion, he was quite the stoic for the first half, but really enjoyed it!

Marshmallow shooter!

Matthew received this from our neighbors. He loves his marshmallow shooter! It's the gift that keeps on giving!

Cities

Matthew is loving building cities! He built these cities this morning.

Chicago 2012

Mark had a conference in Chicago and Matthew and I were excited to get to go with! This was Matthew's first trip to Chicago! Our hotel room was great! We could see the Sears Tower(or whatever it's called now) from our room. Our huge window looked over Michigan Ave.

He loved the Museum of Science and Industry. Matthew wasn't too impressed with Giordanos pizza - and, boy I paid for eating all of that cheese!

While Mark was at the conference on Saturday, Matthew and I headed up to Andersonville. We stopped and got some goodies at the Swedish Bakery, ate lunch at Svea and stopped at Erickson's Deli! Thankfully, Matthew got to see Wrigley Field before he fell asleep on the way back to the hotel. Later in the afternoon, I put him in the stroller and we walked down to Millenium Park. What he thought was even more neat was walking back up on Wabash Avenue and seeing The L roll past several times.

When Mark finished up, we walked back down to Wabash for dinner.

We came back on Sunday and Matthew is already asking when we're going back to Chicago.

Christmas 2011

We were blessed to have G'ma and G'pa H. come up for Christmas this year, as well! We had a lovely time - but it went too quickly. Matthew was soooooo excited this year, too!

Matthew turns 4

We had a little celebration for Matthew's birthday! We invited one of his buddies over for cake - and lots of fun!
He also got to "ring the bell" at the Toy House for his birthday!! He picked out Tinker Toys - and we've been having lots of fun with them!